According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized byinveterate hostility to the rich.

The three have a lot in common with each other in their inveterate hatred of that ethnic group.

Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.

In town for the competition is Phil’s arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.

I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.

For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.

What is certain about Andersen is that he was an inveterate social climber, and managed to latch on to some useful patrons.

Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.

He doesn’t deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that’s frightening stuff for aninveterate good guy.

Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.

An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.

He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.

There’s plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler!

What distortions one finds in these fictionalized self-portraits and in Madame de Stael’s memoirs arise most often from her inveterate idealism and enthusiasm rather than calculation.

But I don’t feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke.

An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.

His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.

The Clermont club was founded in 1962 by inveterate gambler Aspinall, in London’s Berkeley Square.

Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveteratehostility to arms control.

Being an inveterate gambler, the fourth son was only too glad to accept the offer.

We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.

In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.

Rice, who is an inveterate networker, maintains there is no hidden motives about such a high-powered gathering other than celebrating women in business and public life in Scotland.

Ever the inveterate people watcher, I used to sit in the stands and study the folk down in the boxes.

They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.

And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.

I have a democratic suspicion of demands for sanctity as a solution to corruption and other inveteratehuman failings.

The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.

He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions (on everything from compost to marching girls) and the ebullience of his wit.

One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer’s inveterate stupidity.